IMPRESSIONS
At the other extreme sits Fleischer's Salt Crystals (Symphony No.
1), a work inspired by the salt mounds of the Dead Sea in her
native Israel. Crystals takes up some of the instrumental techniques
from the Polish school – Lutoslawski and Penderecki –
and adds a touch of Arabic implications via a bongo soloist. Fleischer
has a terrifically good time with this mad mixture. It's a little
masterpiece that deserves repertory status. …Performances range
between superb for the Koyama and Fleischer, to adequate during the
other two compositions. Sonics, however, are consistently fine. It
makes for a most interesting disc, brimming with possibilities for
the future.

H.T., In Tune (Tokyo; Japanese and English) No. 47 (8+9: August
+ September 1997)

"Salt Crystals" is a spare and intriguing piece of ten minutes
duration. Like all things salty, it creates a thirst, in this case
a thirst to hear more of the composer's music that I can get my hands
on.
"Salt Crystals" is a study in texture, rhythm and an attractive
if not terribly splashy palette of timbres. Such melody as it contains
is incidental. It's definitely worth repeated hearings.